#Science

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The yellow structure depicted is the Laniakea Supercluster, a vast cosmic region that houses approximately 100,000 galaxies. The red dot in the image represents our home, the Milky Way, which boasts around 300 billion stars, including our very own Sun.

📸 Visual Cortex

Lovely conjunction between the and Venus after ! Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are also visible at the same time. Uranus is up there too, but it's not visible without a telescope.

If you're in a dark enough location to see the , this is a nice chance to notice that the plane of our Solar System is inclined about 60º with respect to the disc of the Milky Way.

Screenshot from https://stellarium.org/

 

A circular star map of the whole night sky. The cardinal points are indicated along the edge of the circle. The Moon and Venus are very close to each other towards the south-west. Saturn is not far from them. Jupiter and Uranus are high up in the sky, and Mars is close to the eastern horizon. All planets are roughly aligned – the imaginary line that connects them is at a 60º angle with respect to the faint band of the Milky Way.

'Modern medicine has saved the lives of countless children. But anti-science sentiments could set us back.'

https://www.inverse.com/health/victorian-child-mortality-rate-vaccines

'In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5. While overall child mortality was somewhat lower in the U.K., the rate remained near 50% through the early 20th century for children living in the poorest slums.'